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Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).
The goddess, the Queen of Heaven, whose worship Jeremiah so vehemently opposed, may have been possibly Astarte. Astarte is the name of a goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions, cognate in name, origin and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts.
[95] She was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [97] She was the divine personification of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. [ 46 ] Accounts of her parentage vary; [ 95 ] in most myths, she is usually presented as the daughter of Nanna and Ningal, [ 98 ] but, in other stories, she is the daughter of ...
The Acropolis at Athens (1846) by Leo von Klenze.Athena's name probably comes from the name of the city of Athens. [4] [5]Athena is associated with the city of Athens. [4] [6] The name of the city in ancient Greek is Ἀθῆναι (Athȇnai), a plural toponym, designating the place where—according to myth—she presided over the Athenai, a sisterhood devoted to her worship. [5]
The goddess referred to as Athena by Philo of Byblos has also been argued to be Anat. [218] Philo states that Athena's sister was Persephone, who might be simply the Greek goddess in this case, as she was worshiped in Samaria; a connection with Ugaritic Arsay cannot be proven. [220]
Ares, the main Greek god of war; Athena, goddess of wisdom, war strategy, and weaving; Aphrodite Areia, a goddess of war and beauty worshiped in Kythira and Sparta; Bia, personification of force and compulsion; Castor and Pollux, twin brothers that were the gods of war, sailors, and the constellation Gemini. Deimos, personification of terror
Šauška was a goddess of love (including sexual love), as well as war. [20] In the former of these two roles, she was believed to be able to guarantee conjugal love, return or deprive of potency, but also turn women into men and vice versa. [20]
[7] [8] She was a goddess of wisdom and war, agriculture, domestic activity, industry, law, and justice. Most traditions make her a virgin goddess, immune to the charms of romantic love or marriage; one of her most common epithets is Parthenos , "the maiden", [ ii ] and her most famous temple from antiquity—still partially extant—is the ...